Here is the assessment of a foreign correspondent who recently returned to Germany after spending several years abroad:
It's a country in which the state chairman of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AFD) party in North Rhine-Westphalia has declared that, if need be, Germany's borders must be "protected using the force of arms," which would mean no less than allowing refugees to be shot at.
It's a country in which journalist Helmut Schümann could be clobbered from behind and disparaged as a "filthy leftist pig" because, a few days earlier, he had written a critical column in the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel entitled "Is this still our country?"
It's a country in which the candidate for mayor in Cologne, Germany's fourth largest city, could be seriously wounded with a knife because her assailant didn't like her refugee policies.
It's a country in which 30 Germans hunted down and beat up Syrian refugees using baseball bats in the eastern city of Magdeburg.
It's a country where the language used to foment against foreigners -- both on the ground and online -- makes even Donald Trump's tirades against immigrants seem harmless.
I suspect that one of the first reader comments after this gets posted will be, "Get lost you traitor."
You can read the rest @
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/editorial-on-anti-refugee-sentiment-in-germany-a-1062442.html
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Obama ad-Dajjal, and Hillary have managed to undo 70 years worth of progress in Germany and Europe in general. Their ill-considered wars in the Middle East and Africa have caused one catastrophe after another, with no end in sight.
And I don't see anyone in the current batch of presidential hopefuls who is going to change this. Most would make the situation even worse than it is now.
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